Episode 6420

Extended Summary

Dylan has tied Ash up. He wakes him with a couple of swift slaps to the face. Ash looks up at him with grim determination, asking – what now?

Tank paces his hospital room, clearly on the road to recovery. He’s nervous, wanting to know if he’s going to be questioned by the police again. He will be – pending a psych evaluation. He checks his phone – Skye has been texting and calling him concerned since the explosion.

Olivia and Hunter are trying to get in touch with Irene; they want to let her know what’s going on. Last they heard she was in the city with Finlay. John says he’ll try to help find her. Skye receives a text from Tank, and Oliva calls her out on it. She’s worried about her, but Skye still isn’t talking. She leaves.

Tank sits in hospital being eaten up with guilt about the explosion when Skye comes to visit. He confesses to her that he’s the reason Oscar and Hannah are dead. He’s going to tell the police. Tank only remembers the explosion and then finding himself on the side of the road the next day. Skye’s horrified, realising everyone was right about Tank – she’s done with him.

Dylan reveals he’s been kicked from the Police force. He blames Ash for losing both his job and Kat. He wants Ash to admit that he was right about Ash and Kat all along – claiming that Ash turned her against Dylan because he wanted her for himself. Ash gives him nothing, Dylan didn’t have any reason to be jealous until recently. Kat and Ash hooked up because of how much of a psycho Dylan was the other day. He doesn’t think it would’ve happened otherwise. Dylan takes Ash’s phone and messages Kat to come meet.

When Kat enters, Dylan restrains her briefly until she promises not to scream. Kat tries to talk him down. Dylan is convinced that he can force Kat and Ash to help him get his life and career back. Kat claims it’s beyond her now, other people are involved. Dylan’s grip on reality is slipping, all he really wants is Kat to say she loves him – when she won’t, a coldness settles across his face.

Olivia gets in touch with Finlay and discovers Irene isn’t there like her text message said. In fact, Finlay hasn’t heard from Irene in weeks. Olivia panics, John tries to calm her down. They can’t think of a single reason that Irene wouldn’t contact them unless something was wrong… John, Olivia and Hunter decide to go to the police and report Irene missing. On the way they come across Irene’s car, abandoned by the side of the road.

Billie arrives at the Sharehouse, realising there’s a situation inside, she tries to contact help, but Dylan grabs her and throws her inside. Billy hits the ground hard, bumping her head.

Kat’s had enough, she confronts Dylan – blindsiding him by bringing up his son, Anton. Imagine if his boy could see him now. It still eats him up, the fact that he couldn’t save the one person that he loved the most in the world. She asks Dylan if this is the legacy he wants to leave behind as a father. She convinces him that he needs to let it go. Dylan breaks down at last, muttering apologies. Kat frees Ash and calls the Police to come take care of Dylan as he lies there defeated.

Kat is left to pity Dylan, but Billie has no time left for him – anyone who hits women deserves to be locked up. Before they can drive to the hospital to get Billie and Ash checked out, Billie collapses. At the hospital the doctor gives her the all clear for head trauma, and upon further testing it turns out that the source of her collapse was the fact she’s around ten days pregnant…

Kat and Ash discuss the traumatic events of the day. She didn’t mean to bring him into this. Ash brushes away her concern, trying to play light despite his injuries. He’s impressed she managed to break Dylan down. Kat admits it was risky, but she had to take a chance – she couldn’t let anything happen to Ash. They draw together in a tender kiss…
Roo and Alf work on organising Oscar’s funeral. Alf still wants to know what really happened that night. Sky eventually meets up with them, her eyes full of tears – not with grief, but with blazing with anger. She tells Roo and Alf that she thinks Tank is responsible for Oscar and Hannah’s deaths.